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Story: Win back your digital independence with MandrivaTotal Replies: 3
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djohnston

Jul 04, 2013
7:25 PM EDT 		From the story:

Quoting:For your hosting or your bandwidth choose a provider that is located in France, Europe or any country that does not snoop and collect your data as it passes on the network.


Hmmm. Unless you control the data path from end to end, your transmissions are still subject to interception. As far as France not snooping,

Quoting:France runs a vast electronic surveillance operation, intercepting and stocking data from citizens' phone and internet activity, using similar methods to the US National Security Agency's Prism programme exposed by Edward Snowden, Le Monde has reported.

An investigation by the French daily found that the DGSE, France's external intelligence agency, had spied on the French public's phone calls, emails and internet activity. The agency intercepted signals from computers and phones in France as well as between France and other countries, looking not so much at content but to create a map of "who is talking to whom", the paper said.


Source: France 'runs vast electronic spying operation using NSA-style methods'
Bob_Robertson

Jul 05, 2013
9:34 AM EDT 		And they always have.

Keep in mind that for a very long time, if not now, encryption was illegal in France
caitlyn

Jul 10, 2013
7:42 PM EDT 		Pretty much every Western country does that. So do a lot of other countries, but thanks to a lack of freedom they can keep their press from reporting on it.
seatex

Jul 11, 2013
12:53 AM EDT 		> Hmmm. Unless you control the data path from end to end, your transmissions are still subject to interception.

Yep, as this slide illustrates, no server overseas will help you avoid the NSA's prying eyes.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/the-nsa-slide...

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